“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breath free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the...

So I hear we had an Independence Day. (Or Almost Independence Day, as Van Morrison would sing. And did.) Actually, I couldn’t help but hear we held an Independence Day; around sunset, two large mortars...

Fighting farm pollution Increased pollution of Iowa’s waterways because of agricultural runoff and wastewater treatment threatens the water quality and health of its citizens. High levels of nitrogen...

With recent developments surrounding the ISU Chinese student Tong Shao homicide case leading to in a formal statement from the Chinese government about the arrest of alleged killer Xiangnan Li, a former...

There are a select group of days that we, as American citizens, hold especially close to our hearts. These are holidays that not only bring loved ones together but also inspire a sense of unity among the...

Chris Higgins is a DI staffer interning abroad at China Daily for the summer. BEIJING — Recent questions, still unresolved: Q: Couldn’t we have just taken the rickshaw? Just an even 20 kuai (not...

“So it is ordered.” These four words are the last four in Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion that effectively made same-sex marriage legal and a right in every state....

On June 22, the Columbia University Board of Trustees voted to divest from two companies: G4S, one of the largest private security firms in the world, and Corrections Corp. of America, the largest for-profit...

The University of Iowa is the most iconic thing about Iowa City. Without the university, there would not be nearly as many amenities in the community, or people, and forms of entertainment would not be...

Kudos to an important quartet With all of the big news occurring in the world, from political instability on faraway shores to earthquakes in the most unlikely of places — Oklahoma comes to mind —...

Gentrification is sweeping the nation and has been for a while. It is difficult to find a major city — or even a small city — in the United States today that isn’t engaging in some sort of “community...

On Monday, in the wake of the monumental Supreme Court decision concerning same-sex marriage, higher-education affirmative action is back before the court. In 2008, Abigail Fisher, a white woman, pursued...